IV.The triune nature of music comprisesrhythmic organization of music flow,a harmonic system of tonal vibrations and a system of encoded text layers.Mystical basis is an everlasting interweaving of symbols and meaningspossessing the power to change spirit into matter and matter into spirit.Language is a live reflection of protosymbolic realityand a child of ritual.Mixture of languages and meanings is a divine play filled with shadows ofVerity, a reflection of Demiurge's play.

V.Sound is the crimson blood of Existence, it reacts to Her phantomsand casts a spell on Her future.It is a vague and ever drifting away path betweenthe Outer and the Inner.Music is the highest stage of creative developmentdefined by a combination of aesthetic codes with a universal mysticallanguage of spiritual practices.Manipulations with inner time are a way tobring order to streams of feelings of reality.Mathematical models are botha system making the ritual extremely formal and the archetypal structure ofmusic canvases.Hymns and Dancesare a dual feature of Orphic tradition,incarnations of Apollo's and Dionis's archetypes, as well as the mostreligiously filled forms of controlling inner musical flow and approaches to Service.Steps of musical consciousness are the stages of merging Egointo mystical sound time:listener - performer - improvisator - Creator.The hierarchy staircase on its top level automatically comprises all theprevious levels of Gift.The Creator is the Relayer of highest-planeinformation, who joins in the Game from time to time.

VI.Ritual is the basis of Tradition,a conscious existence within the spiral ofrepeating events and eternal values.Mythology is a system of eternalcultural values providing an essential basis for a personalityfollowing theinner path of personal change.Reality of progress is subsidiary compared tofundametal ritual basis of human existence.Progress and tradition areprincipally antagonistic types of culture,sometimes united only by the epoch when they co-exist.Post-modern cultural space is a unifying factorfor any of the modern cultural forms, nevertheless the level of spiritualfulfilment never changes.

VII.Laws of art perception coincidewith metaphysical reality of social castes.Art by nature is divided into castes.The highest achievements of enlightened creative impulsecannot and should not belong to masses.

VIII.Ideological art is a sphere of personal self-fulfilment,which includes, among many other things,propagandizing values of a certain cultural systembased on clear philosophical and/or geopolitical convictions, and which isexpressed in a consious creative impulse.As MOON FAR AWAY see it,Gothic Neo-Folk Art is a spiritual sub-culture, in its brightest forms defined bythe present-day level of Initial Knowledge.It also opposes artificial andmassively imposed American mass culture stereotype,which is faceless by natureand alienates traditional cultural values.The kernel of Goth\Neo-Folk cultureis a modern formof traditional European mystical creative consciousness,which sees art as part of ritual service enriched by technical achievementsof the Recession Epoch and exists in post-modern reality.

IX.MOON FAR AWAYis a music project denying limiting bordersof space, time and society. It creates mystical and ritual soundscapesin the framework of Gothic music.Behind the consciously faceless visual imageof the project there is the desire of the Project members to create aunified audio and semantic image as free from any human origin as possible.No matter how the Project members live or what they do outside MFA,it has no significance whatsoever for adequate understandingMOON FAR AWAYmusic.A combination of classical traditional European culture and modern selectavant-garde tradition, along with technology and mass-media development ofmodern civilization, merged with strict obedience to traditions reflectingthe mentality of Russian North regions are the basis ofMOON FAR AWAYphilosophy…